Firefly Books

11/21/2025

✨ The universe has never looked this vivid.

"Webb’s Cosmos: Images and Discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope" is the most complete, most up-to-date celebration of JWST available today covering the telescope’s breathtaking discoveries from launch through 2025.

Written by astronomer and science educator Marcin Sawicki, this spectacular volume goes far beyond Webb’s famous first images. It features newer, richer, and more revealing photographs, paired with clear, engaging explanations of what they actually tell us about:

⭐ how stars are born
🌠 how galaxies grew from cosmic seeds
🪐 the search for planets beyond our Solar System
🌌 and the vast scales and mysteries Webb continues to uncover

Part photo album, part guided cosmic tour, "Webb’s Cosmos" blends wonder, science, and storytelling into one extraordinary book.

📘 For space lovers, science readers, and anyone who’s ever looked up in awe.

11/05/2025

Congratulations to The Horse Who Wanted to Fly!

11/05/2025

🏈 The NFL season is officially underway, and there’s no better time to dive into the moments that built the league into the global phenomenon it is today.

"NFL Moments: 125 Icons and Stories that Define the NFL" takes you from the league’s scrappy beginnings to the plays, players, and legends that changed everything, including:

✅ the founding of the NFL
✅ the pioneering athletes who broke barriers
✅ Joe Namath’s famous guarantee
✅ Franco Harris and the Immaculate Reception
✅ the electric improvisation of Patrick Mahomes

Snappy storytelling, historic photography, and unforgettable highs, lows, and snapshots that live on long after the final whistle.

10/17/2025

The 2025-26 NBA season tips off October 21 and there's no better time to dive deeper into the league’s stories, stars, and evolution.

Introducing "Basketball Now! The Inside Stories and the Brightest Stars of the NBA" by Michael Grange.

🔹 Over 130 action images
🔹 50 player profiles from established legends like LeBron James and Steph Curry to rising phenoms like Victor Wembanyama and Luka Dončić
🔹 Insightful essays on the changing of the guard, the new age of parity, the three-point revolution, and the international impact on today’s NBA
🔹 Complete with a summary of MVPs (regular season, All-Star, Finals)

If you live for buzzer-beaters, career arcs, and what’s next in basketball—this book is for YOU.

10/11/2025

Today is World Migratory Bird Day, a celebration of the incredible journeys birds make across the globe and a reminder of the importance of protecting their habitats. 🕊️🌍

In "How Birds Fly," wildlife photographer, pilot, and scientist Peter Cavanagh explores the mechanics and beauty of avian flight. Through stunning photography and clear, engaging text, he explains how birds take off, soar, glide, and navigate vast migratory routes.

With chapters on aerodynamics, anatomy, evolution, and migration, "How Birds Fly" offers both scientific insight and visual wonder—a must-read for birders, photographers, and nature enthusiasts alike.

10/08/2025

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Every night, as darkness falls, the ocean comes alive. In "Planktonia: The Nightly Migration of the Ocean’s Smallest Creatures" by Erich Hoyt, readers dive beneath the waves to witness the world’s greatest migration—a nightly vertical journey of plankton and the predators that follow them, from squid and jellyfish to the elusive blanket octopus.

Featuring extraordinary blackwater photography from around the globe, "Planktonia" reveals a hidden realm where life glows, drifts, and dazzles in the deep.

10/01/2025

🎉📚 Happy Book Birthday to Love You Forever! 💙

This beloved classic has touched hearts across generations, reminding us of the enduring bond between parent and child. Here’s to another year of love, comfort, and bedtime tradition. ✨

09/25/2025

✨ Two new Gumboot Kids Nature Mysteries are here! ✨

🍂 In "The Case of the Tagalong Twin," Daisy notices someone copying her every move on her walk. Who could this mysterious twin be? Together, Scout and Daisy discover the science of shadows.

🌷 In "The Case of the Buried Treasure," Scout digs up the “treasure” he hid in his garden—only to find something has bloomed in its place. With Daisy’s help, he learns about the life cycle of plant bulbs.

Each Gumboot Kids mystery invites children to slow down, notice the world around them, and celebrate the wonder of nature—complete with field notes and a mindful craft to try at home.

09/25/2025

✨ Congratulations to author Alan Twigg on recently receiving the Order of British Columbia—the province’s highest honour.

His new book, "Holocaust Hero: The Life and Times of Rudolf Vrba," brings long-overdue attention to one of the most courageous figures of the 20th century.

In April 1944, Vrba escaped Auschwitz-Birkenau and, with Alfréd Wetzler, co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler Report—a document credited with saving 200,000 Hungarian Jews. Historian Sir Martin Gilbert wrote, “No other single act in the Second World War saved so many Jews from the fate that Hi**er and the SS had determined for them.”

With fresh research and first-hand interviews, Twigg paints the fullest portrait yet of Vrba: whistleblower, partisan, N**i hunter, and iconoclast who never stopped speaking truth to power.

📖 "Holocaust Hero" is available now wherever books are sold.

09/15/2025

Love you forever, Robert!

This New York Times article by Katie Engelhart offers a powerful glimpse into the man behind the stories, and we join those who have expressed profound gratitude for this chance to understand and connect with Robert Munsch in a new way.

It’s an incredibly generous act to open up like this, and it reminds us, once again, why Robert’s work continues to touch many generations.

We love you forever.
Scholastic Canada, Annick Press & Firefly Books

For more information - When Dementia Steals the Imagination of a Children’s Book Writer by Katie Engelhart is available to read on New York Times website.

Robert Munsch

09/09/2025

✨🔬 Back to School, but make it stitched! 🧵📚

From Atom to Zenith, science gets the textile treatment in "Stitching Science: Exploring Science from A-Z."

Textile artist Lauren Wright Vartanian brings physics, biology, astronomy, math, and more to life through breathtaking hand-stitched art, while science writer Keltie Thomas breaks down each concept in lively, accessible text.

Perfect for curious minds, classrooms, and anyone who loves the magic where art and science intersect.

📖 Featured in the Canadian Children’s Book Centre’s Best Books for Kids and Teens, Spring 2025.

🧪 Explore topics like:
✨ Black holes
✨ DNA
✨ Fractals & Fibonacci numbers
✨ Quantum physics
✨ Weather
… and so much more!

A brilliant way to fuel curiosity this school year. 🌟

09/03/2025

🐻❄️ The adventure begins! Worldwide Quest is giving away a once-in-a-lifetime expedition for two to Churchill, Manitoba—the polar bear capital of the world—in partnership with Ontario Nature.

As part of this incredible prize, we at Firefly Books are thrilled to contribute books that celebrates the wonder of the natural world—so you can keep exploring even after the trip! 📚✨

👉 Enter now! https://giveaway.questnaturetours.com/

Please note: this contest is open to residents of Canada only. Contest closes on September 30, 2025.